Despite marriage becoming old fashioned and undesirable to some there are still those who believe in love, romance, commitment and that all important piece of paper that tells their partner that they at least started off with the best of intentions. With a third of marriages ending in divorceand many of those that do not end in divorcegoing wrong in other ways even though the two people stay together it is very important we do everything we can to make sure that we choose the right partner. Whichever partner we pick there are going to be things about them and their situation we love and others that are negative, that is life, but we can at least ensure that we maximise the positive things and minimise the negative ones. Marrying a single parent has it's own issues and whether they will disturb us or please us will depend very much on our own backgrounds, personalities, lifestyles and whether or not we have children too. The age of the partner